I can still smell the smell of fresh baking of bread, cookies, pies, and cakes coming from mom’s kitchen and the best part was my brother and I watching my sister help mom doing the baking and every once and awhile we would sneak in and wait for a bowl to be emptied, so my brother could wipe his fingers inside the bowl to get what was left of the batter, but mom never did leave much and then it was placed in the sink to be washed. Mom always left her baking till December 24th, because she wanted Santa to have fresh home made chocolate chip cookies and she would send dad to the store to get some stuff for the reindeer. Every year she would take out a letter she wrote to Mrs. Claus asking what Santa and the reindeer like to eat on their journey and Mrs. Claus would wrote back,
“Well my dear, Santa likes milk and chocolate chip cookies and as for the reindeer, they like a carrot each and apple slices.”So every year mom would read us her letter dad and my brother were sent to the store for carrots and apples. After all of the baking was done and the supplies were bought home from the store, the hour was getting late. Dad would make sure the living room was just right as he would start a small fire in the fire place and he would gather all of us around and grab his favorite book and start to read, The night before Christmas, to all of us. After he had finished reading to us, mom would bring in the milk and cookies for Santa and the eight carrots and eight apple slices. Now it was time for us to go to bed and every year all three of us I would say to each other that we were going to stay up and wait for Santa, but that would never happen, as we all would go to sleep.
I can still hear my Brother and sister yelling” he was here, he was here,” waking up the whole house and every Christmas morning They both would slide down the banister and my sister would always beat the cat and dog and my brother down the stairs. I could see mom and dad looking so tired as they came out of their bedroom. I would always look at the cookie plate to see if our Christmas letters had been returned to us and they said,” I will see you next year, Love Santa.” and under the letters were some crumbs that were left behind and a white ring around the rim of an empty glass of milk, as well, as the apples and carrots were gone to.
Then Mom and Dad would wish us all of us a Merry Christmas and then dad would start to pass the 1st gift to mom with the tag reading,” to mom from her loving family,” Merry Christmas.
From Santa’s White Christmas
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